Rather than the curse of the flesh which afflicted Northrend and created all the master races; the old god beneath Pandaria causes the curse of anthropomorphism. This curse invariably turns anything cute and cuddly in Azeroth into some sort of unthinkable manimal monstrosity hell bent on pulling cartoon cliches out of the minds of those whose form they take. Thus, carrot munching giant man bunnies, poo flinging giant monkey men, fish men who gargle when they speak and pandarens.

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Originally Posted by Therougetitan

Same reason as the wolverine, frog, bear, horse, bird, cow, boar, etc people exist. Usually tied to some animal god, so maybe there's a rabbit ancient that exists or existed at one point.

I forgot to include the races that obviously migrated primarily to Kalimdor. Thanks.

honestly murlocs are nothing compared to these rabbits... pulled a pac of 3-5 rabbits? thats fine oh wait there another grp of 5 and.. another oh wait thats not all there also a bunch of bigger meaner rabbits with more hp chasing u now....

Lore-wise there's nothing specific, but yeah, generally anthropomorphic races like vermin are the result of an animal demi-god ancient - either born from their deaths or spawned as a race of servant/worshipers.

It's also always possible that they were ordinary animals affected by the waters of the Vale, or the Well of Eternity, or uplifted by mystical energies in some other manner.

Lore-wise there's nothing specific, but yeah, generally anthropomorphic races like vermin are the result of an animal demi-god ancient - either born from their deaths or spawned as a race of servant/worshipers.

It's also always possible that they were ordinary animals affected by the waters of the Vale, or the Well of Eternity, or uplifted by mystical energies in some other manner.

Yeah the worst part of WoW questing is shit like the Vermin with no real goal or interest about them. At least they were sort of used for comic relief

I take it you loved Northrend, right?

"Oh, who does my hair? You might have heard of my stylist. It's called the Void!"
"No matter how much you plead I will not sprout tentacles or turn into a giant eyeball. Well, I might. But not because you asked!"

Nudibranch (this one's fairly flexible)
Jellyfish/man o' war (man o' war-man-woman would be awesome)
barnacle (nsfw though it may be)
Starfish or Sponge would probably draw some fire from the lolpandas crowd